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llllittmi @time @met @wird CHARLES LLFINsoN, or BANGOR, MAiNn, AssIGNoR TOYHIM- SELF AND JosEPHsEMPLE, or SAME' PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 90,737, dated. June 1, 1869.

IMPRovEn MEAT-CHOPPER The Schedule referred to in `these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. FiNsoN, of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot, and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement inA Meat- Choppers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the salue, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is avertical section, taken on line A B, iig. 2, and

Figure 2 is a horizontal section, taken on line C D, u. l.

asimilar. letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The nature of my invention consists in a chopper, constructed with a receptacle or dish, to be rotated by hand, in the bottom vof which is inserted a hollow A cone, through which passes, loosely, a spindle, which is fixed in a movable platform, on which the dish rests; the knife consisting of a square centre, with-four Wings, to which blades are attached, a tube being inserted in thercentre, and a handle aiiixed to the upper end of the tube, which tube slides upon the central rod aboveV mentioned, thereby guiding the movement ofthe knife, and allowing a rotarymotion thereof if desired.

In the drawings- A represents the base or platform, in which the spindleV a is rigidly inserted;

c is the bottom of the. dish; and

d d are the sides or rim.

b is the hollow cone, which is secured in bottom c.

e isa square metallic centre, formed with four wings, fffj, which are placed tangential to a circle of the diameter of centre e.

The cutting-blades g g are attached to the wings K f by screws h, as shown.

i is the tube, which is firmly secured in centre e, and

J is the handle, which is attached to tube fi, as shown.

In use, the cutting-knife`is actuated by graspinghandle J with one hand, While with the other the dish is gradually rotated, the spindle a, in connection with tube c', serving to guidethe knife, while the number and arrangement of the blades insure a uniform and certain execution of work, and the peculiar arrangement ofthe knives allows of their being ground ivithf out removal from the centre. g K A p What I' claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A meat-chopper, so constructed and arranged that the dish and the blades may bot-h be rotated upon a commoncentrc, substantially in manner as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination and arrangement of platform A, with spindle a inserted therein,r the tube'i sliding upon rod a, and having secured to A the handle and the cutting-blades and the chopping-dish, all arranged to operate substantially in manner as and for the purposes specified,

CHARLES H. FINSON.

Witnesses:

H. L. MITCHELL, A J. R. CLARK. 

